Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?
Posted by: @jamespaLast time I looked the air in my bicycle pump wasn't visible either!
But its presence is visible, as an inflated tyre! And it can be felt (vert visceral), as you operate the pump.
Another thought: how about heat teleporter? More syllables, but it draws in a bit from the glamour and excitement of space travel, and in a way the heat from outside is teleported, from the outside in. The tele- prefix is extremely common - tele-vision, tele-phone, tele-graph.
Edited to correct typo
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Posted by: @toodlesEnergy relocator is also accurate but, it doesn’t really cut the mustard does it?! Toodles.
Maybe combine our two ideas, and come up with Energy Teleporter? That sounds like the sort of thing any right thinking person would want for their home!
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@cathoderay Installed by Dr. Who perhaps? Toodles.
Toodles, he heats his home with cold draughts and cooks his food with magnets.
All of the above I agree with - but @editor I imagine started this thread to see if the name we have could be hindering the adoption of the technology. (I may be wrong).
In any case, if heat pump is our best shot, why is a refrigerator so called?
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According to Google 'The word refrigerator comes from the latin refrigare, derived from frigus (meaning cold)'
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It has been said that Latin is the last refuge of the linguistic scoundrel, but putting that aside, how about a recaleferator? If they got away with getting refrigerator into common usage, then doing the same for recaleferator should be a doddle! I'm not sure what the short form will be though.
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Posted by: @cathoderayIt has been said that Latin is the last refuge of the linguistic scoundrel, but putting that aside, how about a recaleferator? If they got away with getting refrigerator into common usage, then doing the same for recaleferator should be a doddle! I'm not sure what the short form will be though.
just cale (cally) I would think. I dont dislike it!
I just checked German, French and Spanish, all are a direct translation of heat pump - or of course it may be the other way round, Carnot was French after all.
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How about calling them refaragerators to bring all the Daily Mail readers back on side?
@marzipan71 How about ‘Coldtohotbox”?
Toodles, he heats his home with cold draughts and cooks his food with magnets.
Posted by: @cathoderay
It has been said that Latin is the last refuge of the linguistic scoundrel, but putting that aside, how about a recaleferator? If they got away with getting refrigerator into common usage, then doing the same for recaleferator should be a doddle! I'm not sure what the short form will be though.
Not sure you need the "re". Caleferator sounds fine to me. Shortened to Cally. Mind you, it's bound to sound offensive in some language...
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